If you knew you were getting the ax, what would you do? The smart thing: take a vacation so the bastards can’t take it from you, then get that fatty severance check when you get back. Sounds like one ECD was smart enough to make that happen.
“An ECD has slipped out of the country two steps ahead of a pink slip. Evidently, when the call came in on Friday, he let it go to voice mail. He boarded the first flight to France and is on the lam there… until he eventually finishes his vacation and has to return for the inevitable.”
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Genius. Except for the part where your staff is around to get slaughtered alone. But hell, if this is true, there probably isn’t much he could have done to console anyone.